Chapter 5: Burial Objects

People are beings who easily create miracles.

Because people always do things that go beyond common sense.

Knowing that there is great danger in front, but for that unknown Mystic Object, several people are willing to risk their lives to gamble on that thread of uncertain future.

Because gambling with one's life is not scary; what's scary is that the opponent's chips are not generous enough.

Although Li Yi is not the first to act, his efficiency in acting is the highest.

Because most of the danger was attracted by Wang Hu, Wei Li, and Zhang Kaiwen, there are only sporadic strange dead bodies squirming in the silt in front of him, and those few corpses are all surging toward others quickly, ignoring his existence instead.

It is precisely because of this that he dares to fight for this.

"Very close."

Li Yi's heart beats wildly at this moment. He is getting closer and closer to that lonely grave, even able to see the characters on the broken tombstone clearly, but those characters are twisted like tadpoles, not like any kind of writing in history; they are unknown languages and cultures.

He dares not stop at all, still moving forward at the fastest speed.

At the same time.

A scream of unwillingness suddenly echoes not far away.

Li Yi's eyelids jump, subconsciously glancing in that direction.

That man named Zhang Kaiwen currently has more than half of his body sunk into the silt. He is entangled by three or four strange corpses, and his body is sinking rapidly, as if he is about to disappear from this world completely. Although he is struggling desperately, it is of no avail.

The corpse covered in mud seems terrifyingly heavy, not something an ordinary person can resist.

"I am unwilling to fail, it was just a little bit."

Zhang Kaiwen is still shouting and struggling, but soon, his head is pressed into the silt by the palm of a dirty and cold hand.

Once buried underground, all his struggling movements come to an abrupt end, leaving only an arm covered in silt exposed outside, twisted and strange, stiff and motionless.

"So the people who die here will all become a corpse in the silt, left here forever, unable to escape."

Li Yi feels a chill in his heart, but he soon stops looking and continues forward, gritting his teeth.

Because he sees that after Zhang Kaiwen dies, the mud nearby squirming, those few terrible corpses looking up and emitting painful wails are approaching him again.

Clearly rolling in the mud, but the speed of approaching is very fast, completely against common sense.

"Is Zhang Kaiwen dead?" Wei Li is also becoming more anxious at this moment.

Because with one less person to share the pressure, his danger increases by a few points.

However, his speed of action has reached its limit. Whether he can walk to the other side, he doesn't know, but he is clear that he has no way back, whether before or now.

"Power, damn it, hurry up and roll out of my body. It's still broad daylight, it's not time for you to sleep yet." Suddenly, a shout and roar echo in the darkness.

Wang Hu is covered in silt. He bursts out with unimaginable power again, actually breaking free from the shackles of a corpse in the silt, and then running and jumping like a beast, surpassing Li Yi in just a short moment, creating a miracle and being the first to arrive near the lonely grave.

Beside the lonely grave, the mud is solid and overgrown with wild grass, and stepping on it doesn't cause sinking.

"How did this guy do it?" Wei Li, who is a doctor, is a bit dumbfounded at this moment. He feels that this ordinary person, Wang Hu, completely overturned common sense.

Being entangled by that thing, can you burst out with power and break free just by shouting a few times?

Are you kidding?

Li Yi stops his pace, panting. His route was better than the others, and at this moment, he also arrived near the lonely grave without danger.

No time to worry about the surrounding danger; he must get the thing and leave as soon as possible.

As observed before, this lonely grave seems to have been visited by grave robbers. The coffin lid is overturned to the side, the tomb owner's bones are discarded to the side, and there are only a pile of tattered clothes in that empty coffin, with no burial objects at all, and no Mystic Object can be seen.

Li Yi and Wang Hu seem to have run for nothing.

But the next moment, Wang Hu picks up the dried corpse on the ground without hesitation.

"Unknown powerhouse, the bones haven't decayed for so many years, come with me, Wang Hu. I will take you to overturn this world together, hahahaha." He laughs loudly, then leaves in one direction with the dried corpse without looking back.

His behavior wakes Li Yi up.

Who knows what a Mystic Object is? Take whatever you can.

He rushes over, rolls up the pile of tattered clothes in the coffin, and turns to run.

When turning around, he sees Wei Li who just arrived.

The two look at each other, not interfering with each other.

Wei Li currently heads straight for the scattered sacrificial items beside the tombstone, because some utensils are scattered beside the sacrificial items.

Like Li Yi and Wang Hu, he picks them up and flees.

Because everyone knows that they cannot linger here, nor can they be greedy and go to take other things, otherwise it will delay the time for escape.

The three people disperse and leave. As for whether the things in their hands are Mystic Objects and whether they are worth money, only heaven knows now.

The corpses in the silt are still wailing and squirming. These terrible things seem to have rioted at this moment, actually breaking free from the shackles of the silt and beginning to crawl in all directions without purpose.

The sound of this monster-like roaring has even reached outside the building.

"Someone has obtained the Mystic Object that stores the resentment of the dead. Only when the Mystic Object that stores resentment leaves its original place will the souls and fierce ghosts bound by resentment lose control and spread everywhere."

"But, how is this possible? Clearly, they are all five ordinary people. How could they successfully survive in the hands of the Earthbound Spirit?"

"Could it be that someone is really destined by heaven? Or is it just pure good luck?"

The woman who opened the Spirit Medium flashes a look of surprise in her eyes. She originally thought those few people had no hope at all and would be wiped out on the second basement level, but she didn't expect a miracle to really happen.

"Since they got the things, it's time for us to collect the goods." Lao Ya's low voice reveals a bit of excitement at this moment.

"Don't be anxious, we can't approach this building yet."

The woman's eyes reveal a glow. In her vision, countless wronged souls and fierce ghosts are floating around the collapsed building. Those fierce ghosts notice her existence and all rush toward her, but these wronged souls and fierce ghosts dissipate in mid-air very quickly.

Without the Mystic Object to maintain them, these things cannot become a climate and will all dissipate very quickly.

This polluted world both hinders people from cultivation and disguisedly protects the people of this world.

Otherwise, after the Heaven-Tilting Incident, ghosts, monsters, and fierce things would have been running all over the world long ago.

"Someone is coming out."

Suddenly, Lao Ya turns his gaze and looks toward the direction of the main entrance of the abandoned building.

In the darkness, accompanied by the sound of tired panting, a figure runs toward the outside in a panic.

"Save, save me." The person is shouting.

"It's that woman named Liu Yan."

Lao Ya immediately recognizes the person: "She is actually the first to escape alive? I guess she shouldn't have risked entering that core area. This is very good. In the case of not being greedy, the probability of surviving is indeed quite high. Wait, something is wrong. What is on her body?"

To normal people, Liu Yan is just running away, but in Lao Ya's vision, a cold, stiff, and strange corpse is grabbing her ankle with a twisted palm, being carried away by her, and at the same time, its body is disappearing little by little, as if merging into her body.

As the figure of that fierce ghost gradually dissipates, the aura belonging to the living person on Liu Yan is weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"She is possessed by a ghost."

The tall woman to the side says coldly: "This ghost is different from other wronged souls and spirits. This thing has become a bit of a climate, actually knowing how to find a living person to borrow a corpse to return to life. Once successful, Liu Yan will become a thing called a walking corpse. She cannot be allowed to leave here alive. She must be killed immediately. If she is let go, once the walking corpse starts to cultivate, that would be terrifying."

Just as these words are spoken, her eyes flash with a little light again.

The Witness!

Suddenly, Liu Yan's eyes roll back, and her whole person loses balance and falls directly to the ground, then bleeds from the seven orifices and dies on the spot.

"Stop."

At this time, an angry shout sounds. A car drives over rapidly. The people in the car try to stop this scene, but it seems to be too late.

Before the car stops steadily, a figure rushes out from the carriage very nimbly.

"I've been following your group for a long time. Didn't expect you to run to the waste city district to kill people. Do you really think there are no investigators in Tianchang City who dare to manage you outlaws?" The person has anger on his face and walks over with big strides.

"Investigator, Wang Jian? When did he start watching us?" Lao Ya's expression changes slightly.

"Since we've been discovered, then deal with him."

The tall woman's expression is cold, not taking the matter of killing a person just now to heart at all.

"Your eyes... have you already opened the Spirit Medium? You are not old, and you have such talent in cultivation. Who are you?" Wang Jian looks at the woman in front of him and asks.

"My name is Ning Wu, a cultivator, not a criminal. The reason I killed just now also has a reason. That woman was already possessed by a fierce ghost. Even if I didn't make a move, she wouldn't have lived for three days. And if she were let go, it would only bring greater trouble to the city district. Wang Jian, as an investigator, you also don't want the area you manage to have ghosts and deaths, right?" Ning Wu says.

"You say she was possessed by a ghost and I believe you?" Wang Jian stares at her: "Your accomplices cheated away three batches of people in the old city district. The first batch was fifteen people, the second batch was ten people, and today is the third batch of five people. After each batch disappeared, they never appeared again. Just based on this point, I have the right to kill you now."

Ning Wu says: "In this world now, it is very normal to pay people to do some dangerous things. I didn't force anyone... Not good."

Suddenly.

She notices something, suddenly turning her head to look in the direction of the building behind her.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by the sound of breaking glass, Wang Hu, covered in silt and very embarrassed, rushes out from a window at this moment. He carries a dried corpse in his hand, then runs toward another direction without looking back.

"Wang Hu, where are you going?" Lao Ya reacts and shouts.

"It seems he is not satisfied with those two million and wants to run away with the things. Hmph, really greedy, but still a bit naive."

Ning Wu's slender legs exert force suddenly, leaving the spot instantly.

Her figure quickly sweeps across the ground, pulling a long black shadow in the line of sight.

The speed is unimaginably fast, simply exceeding the cognition of normal people.

However, the next moment.

Ning Wu's figure suddenly stagnates.

"This distance is beyond the witness range, right? Want to chase and kill? Do you think I don't exist?"

Wang Jian intercepts Ning Wu, and the two exchange a move briefly.

"Bang!"

A dull sound, stirring up a burst of dust around.

Ning Wu retreats one after another, the sleeves on her arms shattering into several pieces, leaving a bruise on her snow-white skin.

"You..." Ning Wu opens her eyes wide in anger, feeling great fury.

"I'll go chase." Lao Ya says.

But just as he wants to act, a red dot appears on his body, and a strong sense of danger locks onto him.

"Try it, see if your legs are faster, or if the sniper's bullet on my side is faster." Wang Jian glances at Lao Ya and says.

Lao Ya doesn't dare to act recklessly, just standing in place with a gloomy expression.

Although he has cultivated, he is also a human, and getting hit will mean death.

"Bang!"

There is another sound of breaking windows.

Li Yi's figure appears. He is also very embarrassed, but at least he escaped this building alive.

"Li Yi, stop, don't think about running. Is the thing in your hand obtained from there? Put it at your feet, and I'll transfer two million to you later." Lao Ya shouts.

"If you have something to say, just say it directly. Don't beat around the bush. You are not interested in a poor boy like me; you are interested in the things I brought back from the waste city district, right?" Li Yi doesn't choose to escape, but communicates directly.

"You are quite sensible. Hand it over. That thing is not something you can take. Don't look for trouble." Lao Ya's voice is low, revealing a threatening flavor.

"I'm looking for trouble or you are looking for trouble? It was agreed that if the thing is found, money will be given, but until now I haven't received the money. Yesterday, do you think I wanted to run? You don't give money, and you want to silence me. It was you who didn't keep your word first. Ptooey, what kind of thing."

"I'll give you ten minutes now to transfer the money immediately, otherwise, I'll take this pile of things to the investigation bureau and say they are stolen goods."

Li Yi is immediately righteous and outputs to Lao Ya on the phone.

You can witness me from ten meters away, so you definitely can't do anything to me across the phone screen.

And now, the more righteous Li Yi is, the more it can prove that he didn't have a guilty conscience and take the other party's things.

Lao Ya's face twitches, almost crushing the phone, then explains: "Liu Yan's death was an accident. Although she was killed by us, she was possessed by a ghost at the time and couldn't be saved. We had no choice but to kill her."

"Whether she was possessed by a ghost is up to you to say. Now, if I am found by you, I will likely be possessed by a ghost too. You have no credibility. If you want to take the things back, you must pay first, otherwise, I will report the Mystic Object matter and the stolen goods together, and no one will have a good time." Li Yi says.

The Lao Ya on the phone falls silent for a moment, and only after a good while does he make a response: "Fine, the money can be transferred to you first, but you must take a photo of the things and send them over, let me confirm the things are still in your hands."

"Pay first, then look at the goods." Li Yi says.

The Old Crow on the phone has a very cold tone now: "Brat, you really want money but not your life. Do you really think I can't do anything to you? I can get through to your phone today, and I can find your house tomorrow. You should know that there aren't many people in the old city district of Tianchang City who own two medical pods. You are actually already exposed. I advise you to be honest."

Li Yi feels a chill in his heart upon hearing this, and he falls silent.

He can run if he encounters trouble, but his parents lying in the medical pods cannot run. This is his weakness.

"Take a photo of the things and send them over first. I will give you a sum of money based on the value of the things." Lao Ya says. Although he issued a threat, he didn't dare to push Li Yi too hard.

If this kid really took the things and ran to the investigation bureau, the one who would lose more would still be them.

They are cultivators, not worth being dragged down by a few cheap lives.

This is also fortunate that it is a safe zone. If it were in the waste city district, Lao Ya would really want to kill to silence him, to save trouble.

Li Yi has no choice. Under such a threat, he can only choose to compromise: "Fine, I will take a photo of the things I got and send them to you."

After speaking, he opens his backpack, takes out a pile of tattered clothes, and takes a photo to send over.

Lao Ya, upon receiving the photo, immediately shows it to Ning Wu to look at.

"These are the burial objects Li Yi got on the second basement level. Look, do they have value?"